Walmart shooting suspects in court Monday

MURFREESBORO – The two brothers accused of killing two Murfreesboro residents in the parking lot at Walmart on Old Fort Parkway are set to be arraigned Monday morning in Rutherford County court.

The arraignment comes after Danarius and Demetrius Coleman were indicted by the Rutherford County Grand Jury earlier this month on two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Latre Lillard and Andre Chesterfield, both 19.

Lillard and Chesterfield were found dead from gunshot wounds Jan. 29. They are cousins.

On Friday morning, the attorney assigned to Danarius Coleman appeared in David Bragg's court and asked to be removed from the case.

John Taylor, who was appointed in June, filed a motion to be withdrawn from the case because one of his "law partners represented the victim and victim's family previously," he said.

Bragg granted the motion and said new counsel will be appointed at the arraignment on Monday.

Taylor is the second attorney to represent Danarius Coleman.

In June Assistant District Attorney J. Paul Newman filed a motion to compel Danarius Coleman to share the password to his iPhone with investigators.

Newman said he needs to see what's on the phone because of a witness' testimony from a probable cause hearing in March. One witness testified he showed her a cellphone video of the crime scene.

Typically the DA sends electronic evidence to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for processing but with iPhones the data can only be collected with a password to bypass the lock screen, or the smartphone has to be sent back to the manufacturer, Newman explained.

Newman filed the motion for the password because he said it will be faster than waiting for Apple to process the phone by bypassing security software and downloading its data onto an outside storage device.

Last summer Apple announced its waiting list to process law enforcement requests from across the nation was at least seven weeks long and could take as long as four months, according to news reports at the time.

Danarius Coleman was arrested and charged for the crime Feb. 5 at his apartment in Nashville.

Demetrius Coleman was arrested Feb. 19 in Chicago by Murfreesboro Police Department with the help of the Chicago Violent Crimes Task Force and the Chicago Police Department.

Contact Michelle Willard at 615-278-5164 or mwillard@dnj.com. Follow her on Twitter @MichWillard.